For more than 14 years, I’ve helped adults heal from the lasting impact of complex trauma, attachment wounds, and painful relationship experiences.

My clients are often successful, thoughtful, and deeply self-aware, yet find themselves repeating patterns they can’t seem to break.

They may struggle with anxiety, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional overwhelm, or relationships that leave them feeling disconnected from themselves.

MEET Priya

Attachment & Trauma Therapist in Somerset, NJ

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This Is Where I Come In…

My approach is warm, deeply relational, and grounded in evidence-based practices, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and attachment-based therapy. Together, we’ll move beyond simply managing symptoms to understanding the deeper emotional patterns that have shaped your life. As those patterns begin to shift, many clients experience greater self-trust, healthier relationships, and a sense of calm that once felt out of reach.

I don’t believe healing comes from being “fixed.” It comes from being understood. It comes from learning to relate to yourself with curiosity instead of criticism, and discovering that the parts of you that once felt like obstacles were often doing exactly what they needed to do to help you survive. Having witnessed both the profound weight of trauma and the remarkable capacity people have to heal, I hold deep respect for the courage it takes to begin this work. Lasting change is possible, and it doesn’t require becoming someone different, it begins by coming home to who you’ve always been.

Education & Training

Licensed Professional Counselor

Master of Education (M.Ed.)
Counseling Psychology — Columbia University

Master of Arts (M.A.)
Counseling Psychology — Columbia University

Advanced Training
Internal Family Systems (IFS), Level 1-in progress
Brainspotting, Level 1-in progress

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Outside of my work as a therapist, I’m a lifelong lover of literature, music, psychology, languages, and culture. I’m happiest with a great novel, listening to classical music or jazz, planning my next trip, or spending time with my cats. I speak five languages, English, French, German, Bengali and Hindi and have always been fascinated by the ways language and culture shape how we understand ourselves and one another.

I also grew up between two worlds. From the ages of seven to seventeen, I lived in India, ten formative years that gave me an intimate understanding of both Indian and American culture. Moving between cultures has profoundly shaped the way I think about identity, family, belonging, relationships, and the often complicated experience of figuring out where we fit.

I should also disclose a longstanding obsession with France. I love the French language, literature, art, history, music, food, and culture and will happily find almost any excuse to return to Paris. France has occupied a perhaps disproportionate amount of space in my imagination for most of my life.

On a more personal note, some of the greatest joy in my life comes from my family. I love being a mother to two wonderful young children and sharing life with a partner I love. Motherhood, partnership, and family life have added dimensions to my understanding of love, attachment, connection, and the beautiful and sometimes messy ways we grow alongside the people closest to us.

My path to becoming a therapist had its own unexpected arc. I studied English and French in college and initially imagined my life heading in an entirely different direction. After graduating, however, I found myself working hands-on with people living with severe mental illness and developmental disabilities. The experience was transformative. I became fascinated by the inner lives of the people I worked with their histories, relationships, adaptations, resilience, and the ways early experiences continued to shape their lives.

That curiosity ultimately changed the course of my career and led me to graduate school to become a therapist.

Looking back, the path feels far less circuitous than it once did. Literature, languages, culture, relationships, motherhood, and psychotherapy have always drawn me toward something similar: a curiosity about people and their stories. I want to understand what shapes us, what we carry with us, how we love and connect, and how we make meaning of the lives we’ve lived.